Liam Cosgrave
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Nov 6, 2026
Hugh LinehanHOST
It's that kind of a...
Hugh LinehanHOST
You know, the 1920s establishment of the state, people like Liam Cosgrave.
Hugh LinehanHOST
And then on the other hand, the sort of Garrett Fitzgerald move towards liberalisation.
Hugh LinehanHOST
I'm just not sure, to take Theresa's point, how well that brand translates into the 21st century.
MicheálGUEST
And eventually he got the full job.
MicheálGUEST
But people like that were in and out, and another period at the time, in the very early 60s, two people came in that were in the hunting web, they were high in Ireland, Liam Cosgrave, he was over the government at the time, and Brian Faulkner.
MicheálGUEST
In Cape Bastido, that's where you could park anywhere on the street, as it was all years.
MicheálGUEST
They were getting hunting boots made and they came in to get the hunting boots and Liam Cosgrave, he was some union hunter in the country he was involved with along with Brian Faulkner up in the north and this was well before the Troubles in the North in about the year 66 or something like that Troubles in the North started in 69 and they were having a chat in the It's things that are sticking your memory up, like those people at that time, normally having a chat, even though they were from different parts of Ireland and the unionists and that name they had here at the time.
MicheálGUEST
There are things that stick in your mind.
MicheálGUEST
There's a first cousin of mine, And when he got married, I used to visit him every Tuesday, go over to him every Tuesday.
Hugh LinehanHOST
It's that kind of a...
Hugh LinehanHOST
You know, the 1920s establishment of the state, people like Liam Cosgrave.
Hugh LinehanHOST
And then on the other hand, the sort of Garrett Fitzgerald move towards liberalisation.
Hugh LinehanHOST
I'm just not sure, to take Theresa's point, how well that brand translates into the 21st century.
Cormac MooreHOST
But then the government were seen as too heavy-handed.
Cormac MooreHOST
You know, people like Conor Cruz O'Brien, you had, you know, the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave and other people who were, you know, were seen as going too far with regard to...
Cormac MooreHOST
the IRA and other Republicans at this stage.
Cormac MooreHOST
And we'll talk about that in the next
Tim McGarryHOST
half-hearted.
Tim McGarryHOST
I think I read out that the government didn't come down hard enough on him and condemn
Cormac MooreHOST
well no it gets worse so far from the government so he in fairness he does try and backtrack and then he he sends a groveling apology to to a Dalek letter format and but Cosgrave the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave and actually Donegan offers to resign twice but Cosgrave won't accept his resignation and he you know he says that look he shouldn't have said what he said it was it was a said it the wrong way, but he's been a good minister, you know, doesn't need to resign.
Cormac MooreHOST
And then O'Donoghue feels that, you know, he's left, he's left Feds isolated.
Ronan McGreevyCORRESPONDENT
Uh, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, as is his wont, uh, uh, as president, just, uh, refers it to the Supreme Court for its constitutionality.
Ronan McGreevyCORRESPONDENT
The coalition government of, of Liam Cosgrave, uh, and, Fine Gael and Labour are absolutely incensed by this.
Ronan McGreevyCORRESPONDENT
Uh, it comes back.
Ronan McGreevyCORRESPONDENT
The Supreme Court rules that it's valid, so Ó Dálaigh says, "I am going to sign this into law on the 16th of October," and that's the same day that, uh, Michael Clerkin is killed.
Ronan McGreevyCORRESPONDENT
Um, uh, he was not popular, uh, among, uh, f- uh, the, in the coalition government.
Will FaulknerHOST
Mm-hmm.
Ronan McGreevyCORRESPONDENT
He did not have a good relationship with Liam Cosgrave, the Taoiseach, and I think in many ways that, uh, Cosgrave was, was only too happy to see the back of him.
Will FaulknerHOST
So even though Donegan had made this statement and indeed sent quite a groveling letter, some might say, of apology to the president-
Jamie McGillivrayGUEST
Um, the driver and the, uh, undersecretary survived the attack.
Jamie McGillivrayGUEST
Um, and in response to that, Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave brought in, um, emergency powers legislation-
Oliver CallanHOST
Yeah
Jamie McGillivrayGUEST
... which kind of connects the president to it.
Jamie McGillivrayGUEST
Um, so that passed the Oireachtas, and, um, along with a motion as well, which has created almost a new state of emergency for the Troubles.
Jamie McGillivrayGUEST
Um, that all passed after fierce debate.
Jamie McGillivrayGUEST
Um, Liam, Liam Cosgrave's government passed that bill, the two bills.
Oliver CallanHOST
Yeah.
Derek MooneyHOST
It's a Fine Gael-Labor coalition.
Derek MooneyHOST
It's headed up by Liam Cosgrave, with Brendan Corish as Tánaiste, and we'll go through the cast of characters now in a second.
Derek MooneyHOST
But I think the timeline is important because, I won't say what age I was at the time, but, uh, [laughs] it was, it was in my teens.
Derek MooneyHOST
So in July 1976, the British ambassador is assassinated.
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Jamie Mac Giolla BháinGUEST
Don, Don recalls that the words of the minister were reflective of the wider belief of the government.
Jamie Mac Giolla BháinGUEST
Now, I, I know one minister can't speak for all.
Jamie Mac Giolla BháinGUEST
Um, however, he could definitely speak for T- Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave.
Jamie Mac Giolla BháinGUEST
It was absolutely the shared view of at least those two men that, not necessarily that the president had caused the death of, again, Garda Michael Clerkin, but there was an underlying bad relationship between the Cosgrave government, especially the Taoiseach, and the president.
Farmer HughesHOST
[laughs]
Kevin CahillHOST
The Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, led an Irish delegation to Rome, where an open air mass was held in St. Peter's Square.
Kevin CahillHOST
Originally, President Cearbhall Ó Dála was to accompany Cosgrave, but it was felt that the presence of both the head of government and the head of state might send the wrong signal about, quote, "A formal commitment to Catholic sympathies in the Irish state."
Farmer HughesHOST
Ah.